Cash In The Air Has Motorists Aflutter

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SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY — Northbound travelers on Florida's Turnpike may have thought they were dreaming on Saturday morning when bags of money fell out of a car and flew over the highway.

The indeterminate amount of small bills was found fluttering at mile marker 91, amid the construction near the Lantana Road bridge, shortly before noon, a spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol said.

The FHP said Trooper K. Kane, traveling southbound, saw motorists stopping in the highway to dash out and grab what cash they could. By the time the trooper was able to turn around and get to the scene, most of the lucky motorists already had bolted. In his report, Kane said a woman told him that a couple of bags of money had fallen out of a car.

While some of the money was retrieved by the passengers in the car, the rest was left for following motorists, including Kane, who recovered $101, the FHP said. The FHP said the recovered money would go to the general revenue fund of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.